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William W. Davis
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 50
Citations - 6350
William W. Davis is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer screening & Mass screening. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 50 publications receiving 6131 citations. Previous affiliations of William W. Davis include Westat & Analysis Group.
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Five-Year Outcomes After Prostatectomy or Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: The Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study
Arnold L. Potosky,William W. Davis,Richard M. Hoffman,Janet L. Stanford,Robert A. Stephenson,David F. Penson,Linda C. Harlan +6 more
TL;DR: At 5 years after diagnosis, men treated with radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer continue to experience worse urinary incontinence than men treating with external beam radiotherapy, and the two treatment groups were more similar to each other with respect to overall sexual function.
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Burden of Illness in Cancer Survivors: Findings From a Population-Based National Sample
TL;DR: Cancer survivors have poorer health outcomes than do similar individuals without cancer across multiple burden measures and these decrements are consistent across tumor sites and are found in patients many years following reported diagnosis.
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Progress in Cancer Screening Over a Decade: Results of Cancer Screening From the 1987, 1992, and 1998 National Health Interview Surveys
TL;DR: Logistic regression analyses indicated that insurance coverage and, to a greater extent, usual source of care had strong independent associations with screening usage when age, sex, racial/ethnic group, and educational level were taken into account.
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The burden of environmental tobacco smoke exposure on the respiratory health of children 2 months through 5 years of age in the United States: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 to 1994.
TL;DR: ETS appears to increase the prevalence of asthma rather than the severity as measured by medication use, with the exception of asthma, and the need to reduce the exposure of young children to ETS is reinforced.
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Muscularity and Fatness of Infants and Young Children Born Small- or Large-for-Gestational-Age
Mary L. Hediger,Mary D. Overpeck,Robert J. Kuczmarski,Andrea McGlynn,Kurt R. Maurer,William W. Davis +5 more
TL;DR: Differences in body composition for SGA infants support the evidence documenting a link between disturbances in intrauterine growth and chronic disease associated with subsequent adiposity in adulthood.